Gardens
Saying Goodbye to Oxford’s Norham Gardens
After a long plane flight from California, I reached the house in Norham Gardens on a cold January day, dragging two suitcases containing enough clothing for my five-month stay as an academic visitor at Oxford University. The Victorian Gothic house was forbidding and strange – with closed doors between all the rooms. It had sat…
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Neil Wigfield stands in front of a mostly bare flower bed on a bitterly cold afternoon in February without a hat or gloves. Though the temperature hovers around freezing that day in Oxford, he’s wearing a single fleece top on to keep him warm. But, as he explains the succession of spring blooms that will…
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